Investigation blows lid on ‘baby formula network’

A Current Affair has uncovered an elaborate network of warehouses that pack and send pallet loads of baby formula to China.

In an extensive investigation involving hours of undercover surveillance, A Current Affair’s crew filmed a Coles delivery van dropping off tins of baby formula to one of the warehouses.

A Current Affair also followed two women to their home where their garage was packed full of baby formula.

An A Current Affair investigation has discovered pallet loads of formula are leaving the country sometimes before they hit the shelves. (9news)

Later, a van from the nearby warehouse dropped by to pick up loads of boxes.

A Current Affair’s crew found clusters of the warehouses, streets apart in suburban industrial estates. The network is run by staff of Asian appearance who often prefer to remain off the radar even though there is nothing illegal about this conduct.

When reporter Tineka Everaardt confronted those operating the packing centres, they fled to the back of the warehouse, with some shouting at the crew to switch the camera off.

The lengthy investigation blows the lid off on the way daigous are operating to clear the shelves in Australia’s supermarkets.

Supposed daigous are going to elaborate lengths to smuggle baby formula out of Australia, for the booming Asian trade. (9news)